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How does the dream affect George?
It can be seen how George is trying to mold his and Lennie’s life around the dream. The dream animates some of the other farmhands and gives them hope. He shows the contrast between the hope a farm offers and his present situation when he says: When they can me here I wisht somebody’d shoot me.
How does George feel about the dream?
George tells Lennie that they have a future, unlike most migrants, because they have each other and they have a dream. George uses the dream to calm Lennie down, but he cares about it too.
What is Lennie afraid will happen to him when George arrives at the brush?
Describe Lennie’s state of mind as he goes to hide in the brush. He is almost terrified, that George will be angry. He is afraid that George will not let him tend to the rabbits.
What do you think happened to George candy their dreams?
In the absence of Lennie, the dream was dead and George was all alone. Candy and other helpful men could not have completed George’s dream. It was Lennie’s innocence and child-like adoration of George that completed the relationship between George and Lennie and kept the dream alive. A great question.
Why is the dream so important to George and Lennie?
George and Lennie’s dream is so important to them because its fulfillment would have meant so many things. It would have meant security and freedom.
Does George Believe in the dream?
George and Lennie’s dream George recites the dream to Lennie like a story, which suggests that they don’t really believe in it, even though the things they are dreaming of are quite modest.
What will happen to George now?
What do you think will happen to George now? He will become one of those men.
What chapter does George tell Candy about the dream?
What you are talking about is what happens in Chapter 3. In this chapter, I think that George allows Candy to become part of the dream because he thinks that Candy can help make the dream a reality. The reason that he thinks that is that Candy actually has money where George and Lennie do not.
Why did George have a dream in of mice and men?
The dream apparently began as just a story that George told Lennie, perhaps as a way of calming Lennie down, or to keep him focused on working, but after some time, it seemed that George started to believe in the dream himself.
Why did the three men sit still in the Dream Farm?
“They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing” because the three men realize that this plan now has real possibility. The dream farm now symbolizes the same hope and light to Candy as it has in the past to George and Lennie.
What happens to George and Lennie’s dream farm?
However, as Candy becomes a part of this dream, it leaves George and Lennie’s dream farm vulnerable to destruction because it no longer exists in the bubble of George and Lennie’s minds but has become a more real thing that can actually be taken away. “I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.”
What does Dream Farm mean in of mice and men?
This dream farm again symbolizes George and Lennie’s escape from their reality; it exists in their minds as a comfort they can turn to when they feel scared, insecure, or hopeless. Every time George describes the farm, he seems to become entranced as he adds new, unrealistic details to the fantasy.